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The following is an archive of past WRAC meeeings.

2018

December 10

• Agenda
• Presentations:
  • Water Supply Update - Jeff Marti
  • Sreamflow Restoration - Implemetation update - Bennett Weinstein
• Streamflow Restoration under Chapter 90.94 RCW Progress on Implementation - Focus sheet
• Streamflow Restoration Planning - new page to track the committees
• Agency-request legislation

November 13

• Agenda
• State Water Plans Monographs from 17 States - Created by: AWRA Policy Technical Committee 

October 8

• Agenda
• Streamflow Restoration - Update
• Office of Columbia River - DRAFT Focus on: Water Supp;y Development Funding 
• Dam Safety - A tale of two dams  Joe Witzcak Ecology WRP-DSO
• We have launched a grant program for Streamflow Restoration implementation projects. This first round of grants will focus on projects that improve streamflows and instream resources. Applications will be accepted until 5 p.m. Oct. 31, 2018
• Ecology has developed preliminary draft rule language for Chapter 173-566 WAC – Streamflow Restoration Funding.  To gather input from interested parties and the public, we have posted the preliminary draft rule language on our website. The preliminary draft rule language will be discussed at the upcoming public workshops we are holding around the state in October. The comment period for the preliminary draft rule language will close on Oct. 28, 2018.
• You can comment three ways:
  • Online via eComments
  • Email comments to: inman@ecy.wa.gov, or
  • Mail comments to:
    • Rebecca Inman
    • Dept. of Ecology
    • PO Box 47600
    • Olympia WA  98504-7600
  • If you have any questions, please contact Rebecca Inman at (360) 407-6450 or rebecca.inman@ecy.wa.gov.
• The Water Resources Program is pursuing approval for request legislation on drought and on well construction and licensing. These proposals are still draft versions and are pending approval from the Governor’s Office.
• Drought:
  • Drought Preparedness and Response – DRAFT focus sheet
  • Z-draft
  • Fiscal note

• Well construction and licensing:
  • Well Construction and Licensing – DRAFT focus sheet
  • Z-draft
  • Fiscal note

September 10 - meeting canceled. Next meeting is scheduled for October 8.

• Statewide conditions - updated weekly

August 13 - Meeting canceled

• Rulemaking - Chapter 173-566 WAC Streamflow Restoration Funding
• Water Supply Availability Committee (WSAC) - Aug. 10 meeting
• Statewide conditions - updated weekly
• Streamflow Restoration - updated with interim guidance documents:
  • Streamflow Restoration Grants Fiscal Year 2019 Interim Funding Guidance
  • Interim Guidance for Determining Net Ecological Benefit

July 9

• Agenda  - New phone number 1-855-929-3239  Access Code 800 292 379 #
• Statewide conditions - updated June 14
• Water supply presentation - Jeff Marti, WRP-HQ
• Water Resources Mitigation, Joint Legislative Task Force
• Water supply monitoring
  • Ecology River and stream flow monitoring
  • U.S. Geological Survey: Look at daily streamflow data for Washington state
  • Northwest River Forecast Center: View river volume forecasts for the coming year
• Washington Groundwater Level Status and Trends - Spring 2016
• Streamflow Restoration - updated with interim guidance documents:
  • Streamflow Restoration Grants Fiscal Year 2019 Interim Funding Guidance
  • Interim Guidance for Determining Net Ecological Benefit

 June 11 - meeting canceled

• Zosel dam - June 1 update
• Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) - for the Icicle Creek Water Resource Management Strategy

• Bill Tracking

  • 2018 Legislative session bill tracking spreadsheet - Final version after Sine Die

May 14 

• Agenda - New phone number 1-855-929-3239  Access Code 805 003 431 #
• Water Resources Mitigation, Joint Legislative Task Force
• Focus on: New streamflow restoration law
• 2017 Implementation Status Report for the Yakima River Basin Integrated Water Resource Management Plan

April 9

• Agenda
• Rattlesnake Ridge LandslideUnion Gap Irrigation District Response - Trevor Hutton WRP-CRO
• Washington State Drought Contingency Plan Update - Jeff Marti WRP-HQ
• Yakima Basin Water Supply - April Forecast
• Streamflow Restoration - includes link to new interactive map and WRIA documents
  • Read our policy interpretation
  • Recommendations for water use estimates

March 12

• Agenda

• Full water supply expected according to first Bureau of Reclamation forecast

• Streamflow Restoration - includes link to new interactive map and WRIA documents
  • Read our policy interpretation
  • Recommendations for water use estimates

February 12

• Agenda
• Statewide conditions - January 2018 update
• Streamflow Restoration
  • Watershed plan archive
  • Map of where the new law applies
  • HB 6091 Ensuring that water is available to support development - Leglsative web page link
  • Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6091 - direct link to the bill

January 8

• Agenda
• Landowners fined for illegally pumping 500 million gallons from Odessa aquifer
• Chapter 173-166 WAC Emergency Drought Relief - track the progress of this rule amendment
• Water supply update - Jeff Marti WRP-HQ
• HB 6091 Ensuring that water is available to support development - Leglsative web page link

2017 meetings

December 18

• Agenda
• See our new web pages - give us your feedback

November 20

• Agenda
  
  • WRP Strategic Plan for 2016-2020 - January 2016
  • WRP Fiscal Year 2018 Program Plan
• Ecology v. Acquavella et al adjudication:
• Water Supply Update - Jeff Marti WRP-HQ

October 16 - This is a Call-in meeting  Phone 360-407-3780 PIN 602714 #

• Agenda
• Water today – water for the next hundred years - ECOconnect blog, Octt. 3

September 18  - meeting canceled

August 28

• Agenda
• Chapter 173-166 WAC Emergency Drought Relief - track the progress of this rule amendment
• Yakima River Surface Water Adjudication (Acquavella) - Presentation
• We are proposing changes to POL-1210 and PRO-1210, the policy and procedure governing Annual Consumptive Quantity.
  • Overview of proposed changes
  • Proposed policy - POL-1210
  • Proposed procedure - PRO-1210
    • Existing policy - POL-1210
    • Existing procedure  PRO-1210